Now, sir, if anything happens to you, you must remember that the Osprey will be as good as useless towards helping her.

You as her owner might be able to justify what we are doing, but if you were gone there would be no one to take the lead.

Carthew would only have to sail into Port au Prince and denounce us as pirates.

I hear from the pilot that these niggers have got some armed ships, and they might sink us as soon as we came into the harbour, and then there would be an end to any chance of Miss Greendale getting her liberty." "That is true enough, George, but I think that it must be risked.
Now that he knows we are here, he has nothing to do but to send her ashore under the charge of his friend and two or three of the sailors, and take her up into the hills.

Or he might go with her himself, which is perhaps more likely.